Impact stories

October in Amman: balmy sunny days, sudden cool nights. As sudden as if someone turned off the sun’s generator with a flip of the switch. It makes you wake up in the middle of the night and grab an extra blanket.

Hanan is showing us a picture she drew on a torn piece of paper. In some ways it’s what you’d expect from an 8-year-old. The people have smiling faces and amorphous bodies.

“Is there an elevator ?” I’m pretty sure I know the answer to this question before I ask Hanadi, a wheelchair-bound Syrian refugee in her late twenties. She lives with relatives

As governments around the world discuss the escalation of violence in Syria, CARE remains gravely concerned about the impact of the conflict on civilians, and calls on all parties for a peaceful political resolution. It is now more urgent than ever that…

In my 11 years as a fundraiser with CARE, I have been involved in humanitarian emergency responses of large magnitude, including the Tsunami, the Pakistan floods, the Haiti earthquake

How long have you been working in the field of emergency operations and which crises have you responded to? I have worked in emergency operations for nearly 20 years, initially with CARE UK in London seeking funding and monitoring emergency projects

Most Syrian refugees fleeing their bloodied country cross the borders to neighbouring countries by bus, by car, by foot. In Mahmoud’s case it was by ambulance.

Friday afternoon, beginning of June, in Daouk ‘gathering’, Beirut−a kind of neighbourhood which is all poverty and overcrowding, home to Palestinian and poor Lebanese families, and increasingly, to Syrian refugees. You meet Yasmin , an 11-year-old girl,…